Sunday, December 18, 2011

Liberty Quotes


"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips, but few in their mind." -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1320) Italian Poet
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Dante.Alighieri.Quote.221A

"It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are “civil rights,” government handouts are “entitlements,” and payment to girls having babies out of wedlock are “compassionate,” while hard-working, ambitious people are “greedy,” punishment of crime is “oppression,” and an independent thinker who stands for courage and self-reliance is dismissed as an “Uncle Tom.”" -- J. Tucker Alford Source: Heroics, letter to The American Spectator, p. 72, February, 1996.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J..Tucker.Alford.Quote.23A7

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